Moonrakers Band - 1974 - Moonrakers Band

Moonrakers Band

1974

Moonrakers Band

01. We Got To Live

02. Cut Your Coat According To Your Size

03. Yara Manyan Gore

04. What We Did Today Is Gone

05. Enia Se Pele

06. Little Sister Of Line

07. Move On

08. Wait For Me

Frank Martins

Mike Appoh

Steve Black

An aura of mystery is hidden on this magnificent album released on EMI Nigeria in 1974 and today a collector’s cult object was the only one named Moonrakers Band.

Steve Black tells: “We were the original members of The Moonrakers and were based in Zaria, then in 1972 we left band management and started The Elcados. The original management of The Moonrakers sold the name to his elder brother who had a club in Kano and they brought Prince Bola Agbana to get other musicians to continue The Moonrakers while we moved in as The Elcados.”

Moonrakers Band and Elcados were the two bands that inflamed northern Nigeria in the early 70s with a more rocking and virtuoso sound, and especially with tons of rare grooves, then everything else around it.